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Originally Posted by Kunama
I spent 5 years working in Police Communications and Despatch and can vouch for the fact the full moon brings out the crazies. The increase in the number of unusual incidents during full moon was quite obvious.
The local Pizza Hut even used to make lots of small pizzas to give away to the Lunies to avoid any untoward interactions.
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Kunama, I am not doubting what you say, however human mind can be selective in what it chooses to remember and forget. It is possible that if something odd happened around the full Moon then it is more likely to be remembered because of the full Moon association.
Because this argument comes up rather often, I studied the papers from different countries and found that when the hard data is collected and analysed over sufficiently long time (1 - 2 years) then most researches agree that the variation is within statistical error and there is no evidence supporting an increased number of psychiatric or criminal incidents.
Cheers,
Alex